The Ethics Curriculum Project (ECP) began in 2005 as an effort to produce high-quality online resources to enable educators to introduce ethics and critical thinking across the curriculum. The overarching goal is to produce tools for teachers that will help them stimulate students without adding to teacher’s already over-burdened workload. That is, ECP helps teachers do better what most are already committed to doing well.
UM Ethics Programs
Prof. Kenneth W. Goodman
305-243-5723
kgoodman@miami.edu
The Federal Appellate Clinic provides upper-level students with the opportunity to plan, research, and draft pending federal appeals for indigent criminal defendants referred by the Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Florida. Pairs of students are assigned to a case and required to produce a top-quality brief on strict deadline. Professor Ricardo J. Bascuas, a former Assistant Federal Public Defender, supervises each team in conjunction with the Federal Public Defender’s Office and guides the class through the briefing process.
School of Law
Ricardo J. Bascuas
rbascuas@law.miami.edu
The clinic is designed to allow students to represent a client from the beginning of a case until its completion and primarily involves clients being evicted from public and subsidized housing, receiving Section 8 terminations, and having their affordable housing applications denied. The clinic is based at Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
School of Law
Jeffrey Hearne
JHearne@LSGMI.ORG
The Butler Center offers resources on volunteerism for students, student organizations, faculty, staff and members of the Miami community. Service days, donation drives, long-term partnerships and many other initiatives are supported by the office to promote service in the community. Also, through their many programs such as Women’s Leadership Symposium, Leadership Summit and IMPACT Leadership Retreat the Butler Center encourages the development of leadership skills in UM students.
Student Affairs
Andrew Wiemer
305-284-4483
leadandserve@miami.edu
Dedicated to the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge to improve the health of Hispanics through the evaluation of culturally-tailored interventions. El Centro focuses on substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, family / intimate partner violence, and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Nursing and Health Studies
Marina Alvarez
305-284-4011
m.alvarez@miami.edu
In partnership with international hospitals and universities, students travel abroad to gain a global perspective on health care. Recent trips to Chile, Australia, Taiwan and Spain engaged students in activities including assessing needs in rural areas and establishing action plans to address those needs, administering immunizations, and leading prevention and education sessions on health care issues for each community.
Nursing and Health Studies
Johis Ortega
305-284-1269
j.ortega10@miami.edu
The center focuses on making strides in patient safety and workforce development while working to stem the global nursing shortage by helping neighboring nations educate and retain nurses.
Nursing and Health Studies
Marina Alvarez
305-284-4011
m.alvarez@miami.edu
Networks with more than 170 clinical partners including hospitals, ambulatory clinics, day care centers, assisted living facilities, public schools, county health departments, and social service agencies. Key partnerships include Partnering for Cancer Care, Helping Hands, and Thelma Gibson Health Initiative.
Nursing and Health Studies
Marina Alvarez
305-284-4011
m.alvarez@miami.edu
Supervised by Professor Sharpless, students participate in cases from start to finish. The clinic handles cases for low-income immigrants of all nationalities in the full range of immigration matters, including asylum claims and deportation defense. Students also collaborate with local and national legal and community organizations on projects to advance the cause of immigrant rights.
School of Law
Rebecca Sharpless
305-284-3576
rsharpless@law.miami.edu
Provides information, guidance, and training to law students dedicated to community service and advocacy. The center oversees more than 25 different projects each year, reaching various underserved and at-risk populations locally and abroad. HOPE partners with community agencies, law firms, bar associations, non-profits and non-government organizations to enhance the delivery of services to others.
School of Law
Marni Lennon
305-284-2599
umhope@law.miami.edu
Teaches law, public policy and ethics to students and faculty in Miami-Dade County public and private schools.
School of Law
Karen Throckmorton
305-284-1382
kthrockmorton@law.miami.edu
Develops and presents continuing legal education ethics training to the South Florida legal community. Students conduct outreach to nonprofit legal services agencies, for-profit law offices, corporations, government agencies, bar associations and courts.
School of Law
Jan Jacobowitz
305-284-8564
jjacobowitz@law.miami.edu
This Medical-Legal Partnership with the Miller School of Medicine provides health and elder rights representation to underserved communities. Students represent clients in federal and state administrative hearings and prepare wills, durable power of attorney documents and guardianships.
School of Law
JoNel Newman
305-284-4125
jnewman@law.miami.edu
A statewide public interest project that advocates for children and families in poverty. Law students handle client interviews, court and administrative hearings, and a variety of other legal service on behalf of children and adolescents in dependency, foster care, disability, education, immigration and other civil proceedings.
School of Law
Bernard Perlmutter
305-284-4132
bperlmutter@law.miami.edu
Kele Williams
305-284-8827
kwilliams@law.miami.edu
An interdisciplinary clinical program that provides in-house legal representation to low income communities in children’s rights, public health entitlements, and nonprofit economic development.
School of Law
Anthony Alfieri
305-284-2735
aalfieri@law.miami.edu
Medical Students in Action: An organization dedicated to providing quality health care, including primary, subspecialty, and dental care to impoverished communities in the Dominican Republic during annual mission trips with an emphasis on providing health education and developing public health infrastructure.
Miller School of Medicine
Michael Spertus and Janki Amin
MedicalStudentsinAction@gmail.com
Dedicated to sharing human and technical resources with Haitians living in the impoverished Central Plateau. The program conducts medical missions with students and faculty and provides training to Haitian physicians, nurses, and community health care workers. Following the devastating earthquake of 2010, Project Medishare volunteers were among the first responders, setting up a mobile field hospital to provide medical treatment to thousands of critically injured victims.
Miller School of Medicine
Ellen Powers
305-762-6448
info@projectmedishare.org
Oversees various projects and programs in the areas of business, bioethics, environmental, genetic and geriatric ethics. The Business Ethics Speaker Series is designed to highlight issues of business ethics and corporate social responsibility, and is open to the community.
Business Administration
Anita Cava
305-284-5084
acava@miami.edu
Middle and High School curriculum that teaches the importance of water as a sustainable resource worldwide.
School of Communication
Lauren Janetos
305.284.3575
ljanetos@miami.edu
